Posted: February 24th, 2009 | Author: Joe | 2 Comments »
Zoltar – B&W special release is well on its way to San Fransisco and Wondercon. For any of you who aren’t able to come by the Squibbles Ink + rotofugi booth #1135 I’ve posted a picture here for all to see. The other 12 pieces from the Tear Drip series 1 will also be on display.
Posted: February 20th, 2009 | Author: Kirby | 3 Comments »
Visit us in San Francisco for Wondercon 2009…Booth #1135…and if the gods at UPS and customs smile upon us we’ll have a Tear Drip Special Release too!
Wondercon 2009
Moscone Center South -Â San Francisco, CA
February 27 – March 1
Posted: February 19th, 2009 | Author: Kirby | 1 Comment »
Party on, Wayne? No, not that Garth, though Wayne’s World was set in suburban Chicago…
This is the Tear Drip Garth. Shown is the factory-printed sample we recieved just a few weeks ago. We’re making some changes to this one before it is released, but darn it if it doesn’t look great!
Travis did a wonderful job translating his original designs to be pad printed….this one uses eight(!) colors to reproduce what was originally handpainted in acrylic on canvas.Â
More Drips coming soon…we’ll post a new one every few days.
Posted: February 17th, 2009 | Author: Kirby | 3 Comments »
This is the first factory-printed sample of Mr. Peabody. We’ll be posting more images of the other characters over the days and weeks to come, so stay tuned!
Right now we’ve got five of the twelve designs approved and in production with another seven designs undergoing revisions. We’re shooting for a spring release, sometime prior to San Diego Comic Con.
Posted: February 2nd, 2009 | Author: Kirby | No Comments »
Tear Drips are a new art toy project produced by a collaboration between Chicago-based product development specialists Squibbles Ink, designer toy store Rotofugi and artist Travis Lampe.Â
We (Rotofugi) did an exhibit with Travis in December 2007 called Fantasy Cryland. One of the things Travis did for the exhibit were these amazing little hand-stitched and hand-painted pieces (image shown) he called “Tear Drips.” Â Inspired by Travis’ creations we immediately set about to pester him into letting us make his art into vinyl toys. Thankfully, he said yes.
The Tear Drips will be released as a “blind box” art toy later this year (2009). We’ll be posting information about the project on this page as we progress.
For now, please be sure to check out our Images Page to see the original Tear Drips that inspired our project.
